Download your play-along videos, tabs, guitar pro files, backing tracks, and 20 other courses here: www.patreon.com/bernth - happy practicing my friends! :)
I know what I doing wrong thanks Tensing up my arm my whole arm. So I have to retain myself and say relax and that is what my problem has been for many years thanks
I practiced this about 20 minutes every day of the past few weeks and I got so much improvement of my picking speed (120 => 150bpm and still going) and my left- and right-hand synchronization. Thank you very much!
Here's a tip to make this workout even more fun: instead of just playing the exact same thing as Bernth, do what he's doing, but harmonize with 3rds. It sounds epic. Thanks for the vid, Bernth!
@@rmcf3972 - you need to play the note that's a third away from the original. For example, in G major, the third of G is B (a major third), the third of A is C (a minor third), and the third of B is D (a minor third). Bear in mind that a major scale has the following pattern: major third, minor third, minor third, major third, major third, minor third, and minor third. I hope this helps.
For the past month i have been struggling with level 4. Then i came back to this video after a week or so to practice some more and found myself actually playing level 4 and struggling with level 5! I was so happy to see that my practice have paid off. Thank you so much for these types of videos! :D
I decided to buy a new guitar and come back to playing after a 2-3 year break because of work and life. Never really had a practice routine in the past and ended up in a rut with my playing speed and I've only been practicing this exercise for 30 minutes a day over the last 4 days but I already feel like I'm seeing an improvement. This and a few other videos of yours pointed out some mistakes I'd been making without even realising like holding my pick wrong and having way too much tension in my arms. one tip I'd give to anyone else practicing this is: don't stop when you start to mess up. keep playing (or trying to play) until it's pretty much a coordination nightmare between your hands and then that is where you restart and go again. This is how I've been doing it and now some quicker parts that were a mess a few days ago are starting to come together so I can play even further into the exercise and then repeat this and hopefully I will eventually be able to play the whole thing. Thanks Bernth and good luck to anyone else using these videos :)
Thank you so much. This is what I needed. I‘m just on the first day of the workout but even after 20 minutes I can see slight improvements. Love from Frankfurt
this is the first BERNTH academy video I've watched and saw improvement in the first 3 sections of this workout. I am 32 an have been playing acoustic sparingly since i was 16. after playing a few open mics with my self taught style, i decided i wanted to get good at the electric guitar. just the first couple of tips about keeping fingers close to the fretboard and where to keep my hand on the bridge immediately made playing the fast section of seek and destroy(rhythm) easier. i had been practicing for a month with little progress and already saw improvements in 20 mins. my bad habit is i never learned o alternate pick! when learning riffs i have been breaking them down and forcing my brain to learn them alternate picking. this workout got my brain more ready than ever for alternate picking. thank you
llevo solo una semana practicando el ejercicio y mejore bastante la velocidad, al principio tenia muchos problemas para sincronizar la mano derecha con la mano izquierda a pesar de hacerlo con el video reproduciendose, personalmente lo que mas me ayudo fue separar cada patron individualmente y practicarlo lo mas rapido que puedo, esto hizo que mi sincronizacion mejorara mucho mas rapido dandome mejores resultados, luego hacia el ejercicio completo. hace 1 semana llevo practicando esto de 1 a 3 hs por dia. TREMENDO VIDEO VIEJO
i get the idea that practicing makes you speed specially on sweep picking. what we need to understand and to learn is what scales or mode you guys use. i saw sweep pickers never used pentatonic scale is too boring to use and im stucked at my own improvising.
I see you do a really great job, so now i'm going to register on patreon to buy your courses someday, (cannot do this rn) but i wish you all the best alerady despite that fact i didn't learned anything yet from your courses 🙂
Bernth thanks for releasing these fresh lessons, it keeps my practice sessions fresh. I managed to get through it first time but cheated on the strick down strokes only at the higher tempos lol.
I found that when i tried to hold a second pick with my ring finger in my right hand, my right picking went more dynamic and precise it’s just like training wheels, I don’t expect to use it the rest of my life in that way. But it worked for me and may work for you too while you do this workout. Just a suggestion.
Thanks by the way for the free lesson, its a great video. I was wondering when you work at higher tempo, do you put the metronome lower and play it at the half step or the whole or you still make your groove at lets say 300 bpm at your metronome. My friend told me its easier to get the groove on bpm between like 60 to 150 ihh and just change the note value to make it correspond the speed ( so if its 300 bpm at the quarter note, 150 at the half note should work too) , than grooving at 300 bpm from your meteonome.
Thank you for the video. I am really struggeling with it but I'm trying and slooooowly improving. Realized my picking might be pretty shitty while trying to learn One by One by the Foo Fighters and having a hard time with those fast 3 chugs on the E string in the Verse there. But Oh well...back to practicing I guess. Edit: That left hand stretch is equally difficult though xD I just don't have the flexibility to keep all fingers cloase to the fretboard.
Besides the different positions your hands and fingers will be in, practicing on different strings will help with the varying picking techniques you have to use for the construction (usually only one or two on a given instrument) and gauges of the strings; which I'm guessing comes into play once you get to a certain speed. Playing on a .012" string will require a slightly different picking technique than playing on a .009" string. Picking a plain G3 vs. a wound D3 string will be more noticeable. Picking the highest notes of a D1 string (likely on a 9-string) at those speeds will require a greatly morphed technique relative to the first 2 strings on a set of 9s.
Hey. your metronome has a mind of its own. lol. Great strategy....don't always practice slow....I found this out and it was hobbling me until I started to just 'go for it' and realized that playing fast requires practicing fast. Ramp it up as soon as comfortable.
untuk mencapai kecepatan ini dalam 30 hari, kira-kira 1 hari berapa jam yang di perlukan untuk mencapai kecepatan yang anda maksudkan? terima kasih bro
Hello Bernth and fellow guitarist, I need some help. I need to build muscle i think or something. Had surgery on both wrists with years apart. The last one was this past sping on my picking hand. I need it to help with the pain after playing guitar. Most of my pain is in my fretting hand. Im a seasoned player so its not like im new and experiencing the usual pain a new player would. Ive even changed my posture for both hands thanks to Bernth 🙏 but im still facing pain after an hour or 2 of practice. Has anybody else faced this problem and overcame it? If so, please help a brother out.
Yep....left triceps tendon repair 30 yrs ago...bilateral L & R in the same year epicondyle tendon release surgery 8 yrs ago. Finally in the last 6 mths almost average every other day practice. I use ice packs etc...I know man it's a struggle. Played guitar since I was 12 yrs old. Let's not give up. We can do it!😊
@@meljohnson5579 that's where I'm at lol it's a day to day struggle, physically and mentally. I will give the ice packs a try. Especially after the bar chord days. Thank you my friend.
I hate stretching from fret 3 to 7, by the way it's very seldom used in actually riffs whether it's in Metal or Rock songs. So no I change the 7 fret to fret 2 on a string higher.
It drives me insane that i can tremelo pick like a maniac all over the fretboard but when it comes to picking arpeggios and scales i go completely stupid and everything slows down drastically
I was like this but recently I found some videos that helped me build it way quicker. Stuff from "Bradley Hall" or "Ben Eller" Ben Eller has a really good exercise that can build your alternate picking quick then id suggest doing these techniques. Just sharing this in case you still never learned alternate picking. Just looking out🙂
@Hulk_Jedi_A thank ya much! I've made some small improvements since this post, but nowhere near what it should or could be. I developed some terrible muscle memory habits being self taught and I'm trying to break them but man it's harder than originally learning
12 days into it after a day of skipping practice I can feel the difference in how I was and how I am quite clearly. Still getting better :D. Thx Bernth
Tu peux aussi passer ton temps à bosser la musique tout simplement… Car quand tu écoutes dream theater y’a pas que la vitesse qui compte… et écouter toute sorte de musique 🎵
It have to be used one on that budget. I wouldn't even consider to buy new one under 300 euros, probably not even under 500 euros. But for 200 you can find a good used one for sure.
@@TheKlaun9 I meant I wouldn't want to go to a class and not go two or three times. And a few of the teachers I met generally tell you that they do monthly payments so I can come in once a week and those turn out to be like a hundred or so cuz it's 4 payments. There's the online teachers but I'm afraid of going to them because if they don't specialize in the thing I want to learn then I feel like I'll be setting myself backwards instead of forward. No, I've had my guitar for a few years. Got a little assassin and even took it to a guitar shop to get the action adjusted as well as the bridge fixed up. Since then I understood how to do that myself, so I can set up my own guitar at my own pace when I get a new one. I also know how to get rid of the fret scratching if the guitar was hit with humidity by sanding the edges, and a bunch of other maintenance. I don't have guitar friends. I could probably afford a lesson (now) since I just recently got a job. I just don't want to go switching teachers repeatedly tbh.
@@TheKlaun9 I am recording a few practice sessions, I appreciate you talking to me about it. I'll see if I can't find some help with the technique issue soon.
Can you start making videos with less empty space? You don't talk enough. Make it like where it sounds like you are stating the world's longest sentence without stopping.
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Hey Bernth I was wondering if u have any lessons on how not to swipe 3note per string picking ? Thanks
Hello, I also want to buy that Guitarist practice set, I'm from Romania, is it possible to get these products too?
I know what I doing wrong thanks Tensing up my arm my whole arm. So I have to retain myself and say relax and that is what my problem has been for many years thanks
I practiced this about 20 minutes every day of the past few weeks and I got so much improvement of my picking speed (120 => 150bpm and still going) and my left- and right-hand synchronization. Thank you very much!
I’ve spent 30 hrs over the past 48 playing 15 min bernth videos over and over and over. I feel truly alive
Here's a tip to make this workout even more fun: instead of just playing the exact same thing as Bernth, do what he's doing, but harmonize with 3rds. It sounds epic. Thanks for the vid, Bernth!
Thanks! i might try this today! 🤘🎸
Great idea!
I am a beginner. How to do, harmonize the 3rds?
@@rmcf3972 - you need to play the note that's a third away from the original. For example, in G major, the third of G is B (a major third), the third of A is C (a minor third), and the third of B is D (a minor third).
Bear in mind that a major scale has the following pattern: major third, minor third, minor third, major third, major third, minor third, and minor third. I hope this helps.
@@zombieteenager007i don't think a beginner will understand that 😂
3:10 - Beginning of exercise
5:08 - 2nd Pass
6:29 - 3rd Pass
7:34 - 4th Pass
8:24 - 5th Pass
9:08 - Final Pass
any idea what the BPM is at 7:34?
Great
@@indraspell1973Seems to be around 125 BPM
@@indraspell1973 lol nope
I was so desperate for something like this! Danke Bernth, du bist unser aller Held!
Starts at 3:11
22/4/2024 Day 1: 11:09 PM to 11:14 PM up to 7:00 D string
26/4/2024 Day 2: 12:06 AM to 12:19 AM up to 7:32 3 rounds
what about now
@@younggriff4703 Haven't practiced after that. Will start again in a week or two
@@shhivanshh Way to stay dedicated and consistent 😂😂
@@jszanko hahaha😂😂, I started practicing from other Bernth videos, that's why didn't update here
For the past month i have been struggling with level 4. Then i came back to this video after a week or so to practice some more and found myself actually playing level 4 and struggling with level 5! I was so happy to see that my practice have paid off. Thank you so much for these types of videos! :D
Made it about halfway through the second to last repeat. Was hard to keep up with those down picks! Thanks for providing this to work on!!
I decided to buy a new guitar and come back to playing after a 2-3 year break because of work and life. Never really had a practice routine in the past and ended up in a rut with my playing speed and I've only been practicing this exercise for 30 minutes a day over the last 4 days but I already feel like I'm seeing an improvement. This and a few other videos of yours pointed out some mistakes I'd been making without even realising like holding my pick wrong and having way too much tension in my arms.
one tip I'd give to anyone else practicing this is: don't stop when you start to mess up. keep playing (or trying to play) until it's pretty much a coordination nightmare between your hands and then that is where you restart and go again. This is how I've been doing it and now some quicker parts that were a mess a few days ago are starting to come together so I can play even further into the exercise and then repeat this and hopefully I will eventually be able to play the whole thing. Thanks Bernth and good luck to anyone else using these videos :)
Thank you so much. This is what I needed. I‘m just on the first day of the workout but even after 20 minutes I can see slight improvements. Love from Frankfurt
this is the first BERNTH academy video I've watched and saw improvement in the first 3 sections of this workout. I am 32 an have been playing acoustic sparingly since i was 16. after playing a few open mics with my self taught style, i decided i wanted to get good at the electric guitar. just the first couple of tips about keeping fingers close to the fretboard and where to keep my hand on the bridge immediately made playing the fast section of seek and destroy(rhythm) easier. i had been practicing for a month with little progress and already saw improvements in 20 mins. my bad habit is i never learned o alternate pick! when learning riffs i have been breaking them down and forcing my brain to learn them alternate picking. this workout got my brain more ready than ever for alternate picking. thank you
Before start practicing, this video already help me getting more understanding on 5/4 time signature. Many Thanks!!!
took a 20 year hiatus from playing! found you and this video and has alone helped me the most! thanks!
I am mounth and a half into practicing guitar. I satrted on a 1st of January this year, and i already feel some great results.
This is by far the best alternate picking exercise i ever came across
llevo solo una semana practicando el ejercicio y mejore bastante la velocidad, al principio tenia muchos problemas para sincronizar la mano derecha con la mano izquierda a pesar de hacerlo con el video reproduciendose, personalmente lo que mas me ayudo fue separar cada patron individualmente y practicarlo lo mas rapido que puedo, esto hizo que mi sincronizacion mejorara mucho mas rapido dandome mejores resultados, luego hacia el ejercicio completo. hace 1 semana llevo practicando esto de 1 a 3 hs por dia.
TREMENDO VIDEO VIEJO
wooow! great work, i feel the movement...thanks
I wish I stumbled upon this exercise a long time ago. It's a gem !
i get the idea that practicing makes you speed specially on sweep picking. what we need to understand and to learn is what scales or mode you guys use. i saw sweep pickers never used pentatonic scale is too boring to use and im stucked at my own improvising.
What a good exercise, bernth!!! I got the three first levels at first, i'm so happy with it lmao
Very good information and always the best tutorials video
I practiced this almost every day and got to the last level within a month. One of the best exercises imo
This seems to be prettu good at helping with my horrid down-picking, def gonna include this in my technique practise
I practice this for 30 days. Today is Day 2. Your stuff is da shit bro. Fucking rock on.
I see you do a really great job, so now i'm going to register on patreon to buy your courses someday, (cannot do this rn) but i wish you all the best alerady despite that fact i didn't learned anything yet from your courses 🙂
What model Ibanez is that? Thank you for the video
Respect to this guy. Although the beginning and end seem a bit sped up
This is my first day trying this out. I'm really hoping this can help me.
Bernth thanks for releasing these fresh lessons, it keeps my practice sessions fresh. I managed to get through it first time but cheated on the strick down strokes only at the higher tempos lol.
I found that when i tried to hold a second pick with my ring finger in my right hand, my right picking went more dynamic and precise it’s just like training wheels, I don’t expect to use it the rest of my life in that way. But it worked for me and may work for you too while you do this workout. Just a suggestion.
will be added to my routine. thanks nice workout
I try many time but still the same before, not improvement then before,
Could you show, How to learn fingerstyle for guitar?
Thanks
3:15
5:06
Amazing exercise love it.
For something like a floyd rose where the bridge is floating, how do you maintain control?
And now it is time on Shprokets when we dahnce!!
Thanks by the way for the free lesson, its a great video.
I was wondering when you work at higher tempo, do you put the metronome lower and play it at the half step or the whole or you still make your groove at lets say 300 bpm at your metronome. My friend told me its easier to get the groove on bpm between like 60 to 150 ihh and just change the note value to make it correspond the speed ( so if its 300 bpm at the quarter note, 150 at the half note should work too) , than grooving at 300 bpm from your meteonome.
Thank you for the video. I am really struggeling with it but I'm trying and slooooowly improving. Realized my picking might be pretty shitty while trying to learn One by One by the Foo Fighters and having a hard time with those fast 3 chugs on the E string in the Verse there. But Oh well...back to practicing I guess. Edit: That left hand stretch is equally difficult though xD I just don't have the flexibility to keep all fingers cloase to the fretboard.
Besides the different positions your hands and fingers will be in, practicing on different strings will help with the varying picking techniques you have to use for the construction (usually only one or two on a given instrument) and gauges of the strings; which I'm guessing comes into play once you get to a certain speed. Playing on a .012" string will require a slightly different picking technique than playing on a .009" string. Picking a plain G3 vs. a wound D3 string will be more noticeable. Picking the highest notes of a D1 string (likely on a 9-string) at those speeds will require a greatly morphed technique relative to the first 2 strings on a set of 9s.
Dudes opening speech for the first 35 seconds felt like he was talking directly to me
Hey. your metronome has a mind of its own. lol. Great strategy....don't always practice slow....I found this out and it was hobbling me until I started to just 'go for it' and realized that playing fast requires practicing fast. Ramp it up as soon as comfortable.
BTW does this exercise works for acoustic guiter?
6:43 I’m currently out at this speed. But will try again everyday now.
Seems difficult to me now. Definitely Very Challenging!!
Das Wunder von Bernth
Thank you sir love from India 😍🇮🇳❤️
Does string gauge matter?
Hairs looking good man!
Hello. What guitar do you Play on the video ?
I love the practice, but why do you have palm mutes in tabs if you don't use them?
day 1 120 bpm
day 2 penultimate level decent , exercise until then even cleaner
untuk mencapai kecepatan ini dalam 30 hari, kira-kira 1 hari berapa jam yang di perlukan untuk mencapai kecepatan yang anda maksudkan? terima kasih bro
HOLY SHIT I DID IT MY FIRST TIME!!!! ❤❤❤OMG IM SO PROUD OF MYSELF!! 🙌🙌
My daughter said it sounded like Hot Cross Buns.
😂😂😂😂
which ibanze guitar do you use plz tell i want to buy plz
Ugh. The last speed is pushing my limits for sure. I’m almost there!
You can also translate videos for Romanian, I'm not that good at English and I'd like to learn from you
after playing along with it me be like - hell yeah , lets go man, oh yeahh 😎😎😎😎😎😎
thx!
To make this even more fun, set the speed of the video to 2x
Hello Bernth and fellow guitarist, I need some help. I need to build muscle i think or something. Had surgery on both wrists with years apart. The last one was this past sping on my picking hand. I need it to help with the pain after playing guitar. Most of my pain is in my fretting hand. Im a seasoned player so its not like im new and experiencing the usual pain a new player would. Ive even changed my posture for both hands thanks to Bernth 🙏 but im still facing pain after an hour or 2 of practice. Has anybody else faced this problem and overcame it? If so, please help a brother out.
Yep....left triceps tendon repair 30 yrs ago...bilateral L & R in the same year epicondyle tendon release surgery 8 yrs ago. Finally in the last 6 mths almost average every other day practice. I use ice packs etc...I know man it's a struggle. Played guitar since I was 12 yrs old. Let's not give up. We can do it!😊
@@meljohnson5579 that's where I'm at lol it's a day to day struggle, physically and mentally. I will give the ice packs a try. Especially after the bar chord days. Thank you my friend.
Its great
my downstrokes just aren't fast enough at the last level. does that mean i'm stuck?
So my fingers don't really seem to work when descending, they just...stop?
Nice❤
Day 1: made it through Level 1 + 2
Day 2: made it til Level 3 till the G-string
Day 3: made it up to Level 4, A-String
I'm so envious of those long alien fingers...
Never realized how long history finger are
Very cool....
I hate stretching from fret 3 to 7, by the way it's very seldom used in actually riffs whether it's in Metal or Rock songs. So no I change the 7 fret to fret 2 on a string higher.
your loss then
Good channel
Sangat membantu kawan
i go to the end of the viedeo YES woohoo (my hand hurts lol) now to refine it a bit more
It drives me insane that i can tremelo pick like a maniac all over the fretboard but when it comes to picking arpeggios and scales i go completely stupid and everything slows down drastically
I was like this but recently I found some videos that helped me build it way quicker. Stuff from "Bradley Hall" or "Ben Eller" Ben Eller has a really good exercise that can build your alternate picking quick then id suggest doing these techniques. Just sharing this in case you still never learned alternate picking. Just looking out🙂
@Hulk_Jedi_A thank ya much! I've made some small improvements since this post, but nowhere near what it should or could be. I developed some terrible muscle memory habits being self taught and I'm trying to break them but man it's harder than originally learning
@@HiThereFaceHere I have to ngl. I made myself learn to stick my fingers out when playing and that's a mistake made. But anyway happy journey🙂
Play technical difficulties by Paul Gilbert, it will help you work on your alternate picking.
3:08
06:28
this is good stuff, timings gonna be hard
IM GETTING FASTER. IM GETTING STRONGER.
My problem is not my picking speed it’s my left hand because my left hand is much slower but I can very easily tremolo pick
do speed bursts
it’s very useful to me
Thanks man
Es fácil. Progresión de tiempo y dificultad con ayuda del metrónomo. Y repetir y repetir. Solo eso
Surprisingly i did this first try
Right hand was damn pain
the final speed broke my brain lol hands just can't do it haha. practice practice practice
well 2 days later and I can consistently play final level to half before falling apart. progress feels nice
12 days into it after a day of skipping practice I can feel the difference in how I was and how I am quite clearly. Still getting better :D. Thx Bernth
3 weeks since this, final bpm high E string and B string are killing me haha. G also after trying for a while. but the rest is smooth
i almost broke my finger, 3 to 7 fret is too crazy for my little finger XD
👍👍👍
If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly.
- Bee
Tu peux aussi passer ton temps à bosser la musique tout simplement…
Car quand tu écoutes dream theater y’a pas que la vitesse qui compte… et écouter toute sorte de musique 🎵
I must confess: I cheated. I alternate picked the entire last run😬…just can’t down pick that fast.🤷♂️Great exercise.
❤❤
My arm is dead!!!!🤣
Me trying to black metal tremolo pick
Hi bernth
Plz recommend me an Ibanez electric guitar under 200 dollar plz plz bro😢😢
It have to be used one on that budget. I wouldn't even consider to buy new one under 300 euros, probably not even under 500 euros. But for 200 you can find a good used one for sure.
You have to like yngwie and whip yourself everytime you hit the wrong note
Hell I can't even stretch that far without hurting my wrist ._.
@@TheKlaun9 I don't have guitar friends... I've been trying to make them but I'm flying solo unfortunately. And don't have the money for lessons.
@@TheKlaun9 I meant I wouldn't want to go to a class and not go two or three times. And a few of the teachers I met generally tell you that they do monthly payments so I can come in once a week and those turn out to be like a hundred or so cuz it's 4 payments. There's the online teachers but I'm afraid of going to them because if they don't specialize in the thing I want to learn then I feel like I'll be setting myself backwards instead of forward.
No, I've had my guitar for a few years. Got a little assassin and even took it to a guitar shop to get the action adjusted as well as the bridge fixed up. Since then I understood how to do that myself, so I can set up my own guitar at my own pace when I get a new one. I also know how to get rid of the fret scratching if the guitar was hit with humidity by sanding the edges, and a bunch of other maintenance.
I don't have guitar friends. I could probably afford a lesson (now) since I just recently got a job. I just don't want to go switching teachers repeatedly tbh.
@@TheKlaun9 I am recording a few practice sessions, I appreciate you talking to me about it. I'll see if I can't find some help with the technique issue soon.
AAAh stuck on the penultimate level
Ouch...
day2:till 9:10...unclear
To all metal basists here: If You are pick user, You can practice that on bass as well!
Can you start making videos with less empty space? You don't talk enough. Make it like where it sounds like you are stating the world's longest sentence without stopping.